Yet still further emergency legislation has been necessary to meet the continuance of unemployment. On March 13, 1922, there were in Great Britain 1,690,000 insured persons registered as wholly unemployed and 225,000 as on short-time. Of these, large numbers began to run out of benefit on April 5, the date at which expired the six weeks’ extension of benefit under the Act of July, 1921, each subsequent week adding to this number. On July 2, 1922, the whole of the emergency or “uncovenanted” benefit provided by the Temporary Act of March, 1921, would have wholly expired. In addition, on May 9, 1922, the Unemployed Workers’ Dependents (Temporary Provision) Act, 1921, came to an end. The Government accordingly passed the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, which came into operation on April 6, 1922. The effect of its complicated provisions can be shortly summarized. It terminated the second special period under the Act of March, 1921, at April 5, 1922, instead of July 2, 1922, as by that Act provided. It then prescribed a third special period and a fourth special period, the third from April 6, 1922, to November 1, 1922, the fourth from November 2, 1922, to July 1, 1923. During the third special period, insured persons no longer entitled to benefit under the permanent insurance scheme will be allowed to receive “uncovenanted” benefit for an aggregate of fifteen weeks, increased to twenty-two weeks by the Unemployment Insurance (No. 2) Act, 1922—passed July 20, 1922. As this fifteen weeks’ benefit had to cover thirty calendar weeks, it was divided up into three periods of benefit with a gap between each of five weeks, reduced to one week by the Act of July 20, 1922. During the fourth special period, twelve weeks’ benefit will be paid, with two possible further extensions of five weeks each. The insurance benefit remains, under the Act of April, 1922, at the same level as before, namely 15_s._ per week for the men and 12_s._ for the women, with the additional benefit provided by the Dependents’ Act of November, 1921, 5_s._ per week for the wife, and 1_s._ per week for each child. The rates of contributions by employed persons, employers and the State are the totals of the contributions under the Act of July, 1921, and the Dependents’ Act of November, 1921, and are, therefore, as follows: ---------------+-------------+-----------+------------- | Employer’s |Employee’s | State | Share. | Share. |Contribution. ---------------+-------------+-----------+------------- Men | 10_d._ | 9_d._ | 6¾_d._ Women | 8_d._ | 7_d._ | 5¼_d._ Boys under 18 | 5_d._ | 4½_d._ | 3⅞_d._ Girls | 4½_d._ | 4_d._ | 3⅝_d._ ---------------+-------------+-----------+------------- These will be the contributions until the end of the deficiency period as defined in Section 16 of the Act of July, 1921.